Hannibal Rice

Brief Life History of Hannibal

When Hannibal Rice was born in December 1801, in Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Shuthelah Goddard Rice, was 29 and his mother, Margaret C. Rice, was 27.

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Family Time Line

Shuthelah Goddard Rice
1772–1814
Margaret C. Rice
1774–1861
Eunice Rice
1799–1856
Fannie Rice
1800–1816
Daniel Rice
1800–1880
Lapantha Rice
1801–1877
Lydia Rice
1801–1878
Hannibal Rice
1801–
Thomas Jefferson Rice
1805–1890
Hannibal Goddard Rice
1805–1855
Rev. Shuthelah Morrison Rice
1806–1848
Elizabeth Margaret Rice
1807–1886
Betsey M. Rice
1808–1880
James Sullivan Rice
1809–1828
Emery Rice
1809–1865
Eldridge G. Rice
1810–1811

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    World Events (3)

    1803

    France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.

    1803 · The U.S doubles in size

    The United States purchased all the Louisiana territory (828,000 sq. mi) from France, only paying 15 million dollars (A quarter trillion today) for the land. In the purchase, the US obtained the land that makes up 15 US states and 2 Canadian Provinces. The United States originally wanted to purchase of New Orleans and the lands located on the coast around it, but quickly accepted the bargain that Napoleon Bonaparte offered.

    1808 · Concord Becomes the Capital

    In 1808, Concord became the capital of New Hampshire. It was originally the Penacook Plantation given to the state by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 

    Name Meaning

    Welsh: Anglicized pronunciation of one of the most common Welsh personal names, Rhys, from a form originally meaning ‘rash, impetuous’, also spelled Rys and Re(e)s. See also Reese , with which it is interchangeable as a result of different Anglicized forms of the Welsh vowel y, and also compare Preece and Price . Initial R- in Welsh is voiceless and often spelled Rh-, but in English R- is voiced as in the Anglicized surnames Rees and Rice. Welsh y is a short back vowel /ɪ/. In the medieval period the English approximation of this vowel was either /i/ or /e/, lengthened to /i:/ and /e:/. Subsequent sound changes in English produced the alternative pronunciations represented in Rees, Preece and Rice, Price. The name has also been established in Ireland from an early date.

    English: either a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a thicket (Middle English ris, rice, ris, from Old English hrīs, Old Norse hrís), or a habitational name for someone who came from a place called with this word, such as Rise (East Yorkshire).

    English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English Rys(e) and Re(e)s which when without a preposition could derive from one or other of several Old French and Middle English words, including Anglo-Norman French ris ‘laughter, smile’, Middle English ris, res ‘stem, stalk’, in origin the same word as in 2 above, and Middle English ris, rise, rice, res, Old French ris, riz ‘rice’, perhaps a nickname for a rice dealer or a cook.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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